Post by ruki takeshi okamura on Dec 30, 2009 17:29:28 GMT 1
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Name or Alias: Senna
Age: Eighteen
RP Experience: Ten years
PB: Uke Yutaka
Name: Ruki Takeshi Okamura
Nicknames: Ru, Mura, Takeshi
Age: Seventeen
Sunset Beach/Sunset Pier: Sunset Beach
Personality: Ruki is easily a very punctilious sort of person and always pays attention to details before anything else. He likes things to by symmetrical if that’s how they should be; or just intricate, neat patterns in anything that isn’t necessarily meant to be well-balanced. While he isn’t the sort who cares if everything is in perfect place in regards to everyday items and such, he is careful about anything remotely decorative. If you were to enter Ruki’s room, one would see a neatly made bed, and posters and pictures put up perfectly and straight adorning the room, and while they may look as though they were just normally placed posters Ruki would have sat there for hours, debating where to place things, and re-arranging every possible decoration in his room down to the last sculpture just to make sure it all looked interesting and as if it were meant to be there the entire time, even while he has random shirts thrown over his desk chair and sewing needles sticking out of the carpet just waiting to be stepped on.
Ruki, slight obsessive-compulsive tendencies aside, is overall a pretty laid-back sort of person and easy to communicate with. He enjoys speaking to others, if only for the purpose of implicating parts of their style into his future designs, or for mere inspiration, though this is only if he dislikes someone as he will almost never push anyone away. And for this reason it can be agreed that he is rather imperturbable, or - for a better word - stoic. Ruki can put up with any sort of annoyance without seeming bothered at all, and is probably one of the most patient people someone could ever hope to meet. In fact, Ruki can be so patient that his patience is what can get on someone’s nerves; it has been suggested that Ruki just may have an uncanny ability to ignore just about anything. His patience is often mistaken for plain indifference, and he’s had a fair few relationships end on a negative basis because of this. While fights and such things do bother Ruki like it would any normal person, his natural optimism often prevents him from feeling hurt too deeply and he tends to carry on with things in a manner that makes him appear completely unscathed. He believes that everything will right itself when the proper moment arrives, and that belief also enables his own laziness when he really doesn’t feel like doing anything, and during these times Ruki’s appearance will also be much more conventional.
While he appears outwardly social in most ways, he also has the ability to zone out at random intervals, even though he doesn’t mean to. This is a sign that Ruki doesn’t have much focus for anything that doesn’t interest him, and that dreamy expression he has when he’s off in his own little world really doesn’t capture that he’s merely thinking of what he’s going to do the next day or what his workload is like for when he comes home. Ruki makes for a good conversationalist when it interests him, but as far as something that he finds boring, Ruki’s attention span doesn’t seem to exist.
Having a large amount of pride and also being stubborn, he is never the first one to apologize. In fact, even if someone were to apologize to him in regards to something their both at fault for it’s likely they won’t receive the same favour. The fact that he is also a fair bit selfish doesn’t help anything, so he’s often unable to see the needs of those around him. Ruki wants to be the center of attention and have whatever he wants as soon as the desire strikes him, but it will be a while - if at all - before he offers anything to anyone else unless it suits him. Though it must be said that on some days Ruki is much more giving than others, and if he does happen to get well attached to someone (he’s never been particularly close to anyone) he’ll probably throw as much as he can into the relationship, learning as he goes along. So while he does act selfish and basically is, he has the ability to be selfless if he feels it to be properly warranted. It should not be assumed that Ruki is afraid of closeness, as he has no qualms with the concept.
Ruki is essentially pretty intelligent, though he usually just doesn’t apply himself. Some people think he’s a bit vain because he puts so much effort into his appearance much of the time and not much effort into anything else, but the fact that he has a poor attention span and that he often subconsciously uses his optimism as an excuse to do no work, as well as the add-on that he’s lazy makes so that most things that Ruki does are not much above mediocre if he lacks a passion for them. Not many spectacular things can be expected of Ruki’s grades, though he does show quite the talent for working hard under pressure.
Likes:
• J-Rock
• Cucumber maki
• Hands
• Crafts
• Sewing
• Peace and quiet
• Hair dye
• Creativity
• Walking outside
• Bright colors
• Clunky jewelery
• Antiques
Hates:
• Being nagged
• Cleaning his room
• Homework
• Racism and racist slurs
• Imperfection
• Ugliness
• Prawns
• Busy malls
• Gossip magazines
• Country music
Fears:
• Living the rest of his life alone
Aspirations:
• Pleasing his parents
• Getting into the fashion industry
Dirty Little Secret: Ruki's actually a pretty okay guy, and maybe kind of boring, because he doesn't really have a dirty secret. He's open about almost everything with his friends. But... one could say that Ruki's cheated his way through school at some points in his life. That is a fact he'll never admit to himself or anyone else.
Family:
Kazuo Shiro Okamura - Father
Kazuo is a forty-five year old management consultant who works for a large retail department store chain. While he appears to be slightly over-bearing, he is generally calm and has an uncanny ability to associate with just about anyone in a pleasant manner though he has a gruff way of speaking. Ruki is relatively close to his father, though he is well aware that Kazuo thinks he should be spending his time on something more worthwhile than altering clothing.
Etsuko Okamura – Mother
Etsuko was born in Japan and moved to America when she was eight years old. She is now thirty-eight, and still has a very slight accent that is only noticeable if one listens closely. Etsuko’s own parents, however, still have an accent that is more on the heavier side. She’s a harsher woman with high expectations for Ruki, is fiercely intelligent, and works as an accountant.
Reiko Miyuki Okamura – Sister (deceased)
Four years younger than himself, Ruki was just getting to that age where he was beginning to become closer to his sister. Because of that initial lack of closeness, Ruki wasn’t as bothered as he could have been by her death. She was killed when the bus she was riding on was rear-ended hard when she was sitting in the very back of the bus. Ruki was thirteen when she died.
Short history: Born and raised in the United States, Ruki lived in New Jersey before moving to Sunset Beach at the age of six so that his family could be closer to his grandparents (father’s side). His little sister was only two years old at the time, and Ruki doesn’t really remember much about New Jersey to miss it. At that time, Ruki had been a quiet, timid boy so he had no friends to complain about moving away from either. The move ended up being rather uneventful, with very little reluctance from any of the family members. There was no cultural clash from his grandparents as they, too, were born and raised in the United States, so it’s quite clear that Ruki’s family is American aside from his mother and her family. Ruki, however, is unfamiliar with his mother’s own family as her parents went back to Japan when his mother finished high school, and the others hadn’t made the move in the first place.
Ruki only began to come into his own at around eight years old, as this was the time he began to break out of his shy shell and step forward to begin experimenting with things that seemed to be of interest to him. At school he never really made friends with any particular group, and rather had a tendency to bounce from person to person rather than associating with anyone for too long, as once he began to become social everything seemed too interesting to him to focus on any one thing. So while he was outgoing at school and in activities outside of school, he never brought anyone home, and his teachers couldn’t understand why his parents expressed such worry about his social development when Ruki seemed aptly tuned to it. This trend continued until close to junior high, when having a certain group of friends seemed more important than having many acquaintances, and at this point Ruki’s ever slipping grades began to balance out when he seemed to withdraw once again from any prospect of socializing. At this point, he became relatively familiar with one of his teachers, and upon seeing her sewing during a lunch break he too became interested, and that was where his interest in detailing and clothing modification derived from. He soon began to join his teacher at lunch, learning from her what he could before attempting to sew any large project on his own.
In the eighth grade, Ruki began his climb to dressing in the way he does now, and with this he became confident once again and finally began to associate in a way that was less bouncy and a bit more grounded, though he usually fluttered from one group or another every now and then, though sticking within two groups of friends. Though closer to them than his previous friends, the relationships weren’t quite well-developed enough to help him cope with his first emotional jolt - the death of his sister, an event he never quite knew how to handle. Killed on the bus on the way back from her school, a cement truck had collided with the bus on the highway after the bus driver had slammed the breaks to avoid running into an accident that had happened just ahead of them. The cement truck had been a bit closer to the bus than it should have, and didn’t have enough time to come to such a quick stop. Having been sitting in the very back of the bus, the small girl was killed along with a few other children while those in the front remained virtually unharmed. And for this reason, while he isn’t aware of his own habit, Ruki will never go too near the back of a bus. Ruki didn’t cry at first, as even though he was thirteen at the time it was also the first time he’d experienced death, having never owned any pets before and having a very healthy family. His father was insistent that Ruki assist with the funeral plans in small ways out of respect to Reiko, and this lead Ruki into the habit of keeping busy and became his way of dealing with the death. Ruki’s intense level of focus on small details is his unconscious way of handling things that bother him.
After the death of her daughter, Ruki’s mother became much more harsh on Ruki, but out of her own love and worry for him. It almost seems that because she now has only one child, it’s even more crucial for him to succeed in life and go above and beyond her own high expectations. However, Ruki’s laid-back and often lazy attitude prevents him from trying too hard in many things, and often times his grades are little better than mediocre, so he is often under pressure from her though he himself isn’t aware of the stress she puts on him. While he doesn’t intentionally disappoint, Ruki handles things differently than most, and all the stress does is make him focus more on the things he does enjoy rather than on his schooling, being that he lacks any sort of direction in that area due to not quite knowing what he wants to do once he leaves school. Some turmoil at home due to Ruki’s perceived inability to put effort into anything regarding school caused him to have difficulties getting into his junior year, but his work ethic during Summer school proves that there may be hope for him yet.
Plot Discription: Well, Ruki certainly needs to get his first girlfriend. I'm thinking he'll fall hard and fast for the girl he chooses, and because of that possibly get his heart broken. If this happens, it may destroy him until he finds "the one".
(Oh, and I hope I posted this in the right spot. I got kinda confused... if I didn't, I'm really sorry)
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Name or Alias: Senna
Age: Eighteen
RP Experience: Ten years
Show me the New Face
PB: Uke Yutaka
This is the New Character
Name: Ruki Takeshi Okamura
Nicknames: Ru, Mura, Takeshi
Age: Seventeen
Sunset Beach/Sunset Pier: Sunset Beach
Personality: Ruki is easily a very punctilious sort of person and always pays attention to details before anything else. He likes things to by symmetrical if that’s how they should be; or just intricate, neat patterns in anything that isn’t necessarily meant to be well-balanced. While he isn’t the sort who cares if everything is in perfect place in regards to everyday items and such, he is careful about anything remotely decorative. If you were to enter Ruki’s room, one would see a neatly made bed, and posters and pictures put up perfectly and straight adorning the room, and while they may look as though they were just normally placed posters Ruki would have sat there for hours, debating where to place things, and re-arranging every possible decoration in his room down to the last sculpture just to make sure it all looked interesting and as if it were meant to be there the entire time, even while he has random shirts thrown over his desk chair and sewing needles sticking out of the carpet just waiting to be stepped on.
Ruki, slight obsessive-compulsive tendencies aside, is overall a pretty laid-back sort of person and easy to communicate with. He enjoys speaking to others, if only for the purpose of implicating parts of their style into his future designs, or for mere inspiration, though this is only if he dislikes someone as he will almost never push anyone away. And for this reason it can be agreed that he is rather imperturbable, or - for a better word - stoic. Ruki can put up with any sort of annoyance without seeming bothered at all, and is probably one of the most patient people someone could ever hope to meet. In fact, Ruki can be so patient that his patience is what can get on someone’s nerves; it has been suggested that Ruki just may have an uncanny ability to ignore just about anything. His patience is often mistaken for plain indifference, and he’s had a fair few relationships end on a negative basis because of this. While fights and such things do bother Ruki like it would any normal person, his natural optimism often prevents him from feeling hurt too deeply and he tends to carry on with things in a manner that makes him appear completely unscathed. He believes that everything will right itself when the proper moment arrives, and that belief also enables his own laziness when he really doesn’t feel like doing anything, and during these times Ruki’s appearance will also be much more conventional.
While he appears outwardly social in most ways, he also has the ability to zone out at random intervals, even though he doesn’t mean to. This is a sign that Ruki doesn’t have much focus for anything that doesn’t interest him, and that dreamy expression he has when he’s off in his own little world really doesn’t capture that he’s merely thinking of what he’s going to do the next day or what his workload is like for when he comes home. Ruki makes for a good conversationalist when it interests him, but as far as something that he finds boring, Ruki’s attention span doesn’t seem to exist.
Having a large amount of pride and also being stubborn, he is never the first one to apologize. In fact, even if someone were to apologize to him in regards to something their both at fault for it’s likely they won’t receive the same favour. The fact that he is also a fair bit selfish doesn’t help anything, so he’s often unable to see the needs of those around him. Ruki wants to be the center of attention and have whatever he wants as soon as the desire strikes him, but it will be a while - if at all - before he offers anything to anyone else unless it suits him. Though it must be said that on some days Ruki is much more giving than others, and if he does happen to get well attached to someone (he’s never been particularly close to anyone) he’ll probably throw as much as he can into the relationship, learning as he goes along. So while he does act selfish and basically is, he has the ability to be selfless if he feels it to be properly warranted. It should not be assumed that Ruki is afraid of closeness, as he has no qualms with the concept.
Ruki is essentially pretty intelligent, though he usually just doesn’t apply himself. Some people think he’s a bit vain because he puts so much effort into his appearance much of the time and not much effort into anything else, but the fact that he has a poor attention span and that he often subconsciously uses his optimism as an excuse to do no work, as well as the add-on that he’s lazy makes so that most things that Ruki does are not much above mediocre if he lacks a passion for them. Not many spectacular things can be expected of Ruki’s grades, though he does show quite the talent for working hard under pressure.
Likes:
• J-Rock
• Cucumber maki
• Hands
• Crafts
• Sewing
• Peace and quiet
• Hair dye
• Creativity
• Walking outside
• Bright colors
• Clunky jewelery
• Antiques
Hates:
• Being nagged
• Cleaning his room
• Homework
• Racism and racist slurs
• Imperfection
• Ugliness
• Prawns
• Busy malls
• Gossip magazines
• Country music
Fears:
• Living the rest of his life alone
Aspirations:
• Pleasing his parents
• Getting into the fashion industry
Dirty Little Secret: Ruki's actually a pretty okay guy, and maybe kind of boring, because he doesn't really have a dirty secret. He's open about almost everything with his friends. But... one could say that Ruki's cheated his way through school at some points in his life. That is a fact he'll never admit to himself or anyone else.
Family:
Kazuo Shiro Okamura - Father
Kazuo is a forty-five year old management consultant who works for a large retail department store chain. While he appears to be slightly over-bearing, he is generally calm and has an uncanny ability to associate with just about anyone in a pleasant manner though he has a gruff way of speaking. Ruki is relatively close to his father, though he is well aware that Kazuo thinks he should be spending his time on something more worthwhile than altering clothing.
Etsuko Okamura – Mother
Etsuko was born in Japan and moved to America when she was eight years old. She is now thirty-eight, and still has a very slight accent that is only noticeable if one listens closely. Etsuko’s own parents, however, still have an accent that is more on the heavier side. She’s a harsher woman with high expectations for Ruki, is fiercely intelligent, and works as an accountant.
Reiko Miyuki Okamura – Sister (deceased)
Four years younger than himself, Ruki was just getting to that age where he was beginning to become closer to his sister. Because of that initial lack of closeness, Ruki wasn’t as bothered as he could have been by her death. She was killed when the bus she was riding on was rear-ended hard when she was sitting in the very back of the bus. Ruki was thirteen when she died.
Short history: Born and raised in the United States, Ruki lived in New Jersey before moving to Sunset Beach at the age of six so that his family could be closer to his grandparents (father’s side). His little sister was only two years old at the time, and Ruki doesn’t really remember much about New Jersey to miss it. At that time, Ruki had been a quiet, timid boy so he had no friends to complain about moving away from either. The move ended up being rather uneventful, with very little reluctance from any of the family members. There was no cultural clash from his grandparents as they, too, were born and raised in the United States, so it’s quite clear that Ruki’s family is American aside from his mother and her family. Ruki, however, is unfamiliar with his mother’s own family as her parents went back to Japan when his mother finished high school, and the others hadn’t made the move in the first place.
Ruki only began to come into his own at around eight years old, as this was the time he began to break out of his shy shell and step forward to begin experimenting with things that seemed to be of interest to him. At school he never really made friends with any particular group, and rather had a tendency to bounce from person to person rather than associating with anyone for too long, as once he began to become social everything seemed too interesting to him to focus on any one thing. So while he was outgoing at school and in activities outside of school, he never brought anyone home, and his teachers couldn’t understand why his parents expressed such worry about his social development when Ruki seemed aptly tuned to it. This trend continued until close to junior high, when having a certain group of friends seemed more important than having many acquaintances, and at this point Ruki’s ever slipping grades began to balance out when he seemed to withdraw once again from any prospect of socializing. At this point, he became relatively familiar with one of his teachers, and upon seeing her sewing during a lunch break he too became interested, and that was where his interest in detailing and clothing modification derived from. He soon began to join his teacher at lunch, learning from her what he could before attempting to sew any large project on his own.
In the eighth grade, Ruki began his climb to dressing in the way he does now, and with this he became confident once again and finally began to associate in a way that was less bouncy and a bit more grounded, though he usually fluttered from one group or another every now and then, though sticking within two groups of friends. Though closer to them than his previous friends, the relationships weren’t quite well-developed enough to help him cope with his first emotional jolt - the death of his sister, an event he never quite knew how to handle. Killed on the bus on the way back from her school, a cement truck had collided with the bus on the highway after the bus driver had slammed the breaks to avoid running into an accident that had happened just ahead of them. The cement truck had been a bit closer to the bus than it should have, and didn’t have enough time to come to such a quick stop. Having been sitting in the very back of the bus, the small girl was killed along with a few other children while those in the front remained virtually unharmed. And for this reason, while he isn’t aware of his own habit, Ruki will never go too near the back of a bus. Ruki didn’t cry at first, as even though he was thirteen at the time it was also the first time he’d experienced death, having never owned any pets before and having a very healthy family. His father was insistent that Ruki assist with the funeral plans in small ways out of respect to Reiko, and this lead Ruki into the habit of keeping busy and became his way of dealing with the death. Ruki’s intense level of focus on small details is his unconscious way of handling things that bother him.
After the death of her daughter, Ruki’s mother became much more harsh on Ruki, but out of her own love and worry for him. It almost seems that because she now has only one child, it’s even more crucial for him to succeed in life and go above and beyond her own high expectations. However, Ruki’s laid-back and often lazy attitude prevents him from trying too hard in many things, and often times his grades are little better than mediocre, so he is often under pressure from her though he himself isn’t aware of the stress she puts on him. While he doesn’t intentionally disappoint, Ruki handles things differently than most, and all the stress does is make him focus more on the things he does enjoy rather than on his schooling, being that he lacks any sort of direction in that area due to not quite knowing what he wants to do once he leaves school. Some turmoil at home due to Ruki’s perceived inability to put effort into anything regarding school caused him to have difficulties getting into his junior year, but his work ethic during Summer school proves that there may be hope for him yet.
Plot Discription: Well, Ruki certainly needs to get his first girlfriend. I'm thinking he'll fall hard and fast for the girl he chooses, and because of that possibly get his heart broken. If this happens, it may destroy him until he finds "the one".
(Oh, and I hope I posted this in the right spot. I got kinda confused... if I didn't, I'm really sorry)
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